Joshua Durbin
Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Engineering at Commerce
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Durbin is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in infrastructure, SRE, and cloud operations with two decades of hands-on experience and a proven track record of delivering reliable platforms at scale. Based in San Francisco, he has led large migrations to GCP, engineered multi-region architectures and ProxySQL rollouts that cut DB connections ~90%, and prepared platforms for peaks handling billions of MySQL ops and hundreds of millions of edge/cache requests daily. He combines systems thinking with practical tool-building—shipping containerized Go services, real-time telemetry, and automation that reduced cloud spend and incident MTTR by large margins—while developing training and cross-training programs that lower operational risk. Known for translating deep technical detail into digestible plans for junior engineers and nontechnical stakeholders, he also champions zero-trust access and least-privilege infrastructure via Teleport and IaC. Outside obvious ops wins, his pragmatic motto—“It's what I want that's easy. It's getting it that's complicated.”—captures an appetite for simplifying complex delivery paths.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
English, Spanish
Github Skills (122)
firewall10
rdp10
bastion10
security10
pam10
ssh10
golang10
rbac10
database-access10
graph10
audit10
certificate10
property-graph9
hashicorp9
kapacitor9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joshdurbin/movie-ratings-demo
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 52 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
baaahs/light-server-infrastructure
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 93 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
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